Hitting a Nerve
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Solo Vs McDoctors Inc.
A small, even solo, medical practice isn’t incompatible with the shiny toys of 2024 medicine. You can make good patient care happen with both.
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A Brief Glimpse Into 80,000 Years of Human History
No matter how much medicine may change, in many ways it will stay the same.
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Mechanism of Action
We want to understand what we’re prescribing will do to patients. We want to explain it to them, too.
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Statins for MS (Not)
Everything we do now in medicine is based on both the successes and failures of what came before.
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Flash Drive Versus Paper
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Not Keeping Up With the Joneses
I have no desire to advertise that I’m the best neurologist in town (though I believe I’m the best in my building, since there isn’t another one...
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Mom’s Potato Salad
Alzheimer’s disease is a worldwide human problem. Not American. Not western. Not restricted by race, or ethnicity, or continent.
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The Small Business of Medicine
I’m certainly not in a position to offer extended or weekend hours — I mean, I could, but I also have my own sanity to keep.
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The Prohibitive Price Tag
The guidelines, in essence, are useful, but only apply to a perfect world where drug cost doesn’t matter.
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The Digital Side Effects
The CrowdStrike outage is a reminder of how vulnerable our whole world is to disruption of the internet.
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Last Call for Alcohol? Probably Not